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2. Men have also been gang raped in prisons for decades, both in and out of war.

They had a series of incidents involving female Navy pilots as I remember, one involved forgetting to pull out of afterburner soon enough leading to an engine failure on one turkey/F-14 .The other one slipped off of the side of the flight deck on landing.

Considering the number of female pilots in the USN who were flying F 14's those numbers were close to sixty percent at the time and the admirals pay close attention to crash statistics .Navy Females pilots did well flying rescure choppers for a while !

These rapes occurred soon after capture and interrogation during desert storm after a army supply chopper went down . Rapes in prison are a different topic,don't you think ?

Putting the grades in context, Grissom recalled his years as an F-14 instructor on the East Coast, where training is conducted at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach.

``If these grades that Kara had, had been flown by a male pilot or anybody, I would have qualified him without a blink of an eye,'' he said. ``And it is not unusual to not have as good a boarding rate at night. There's no doubt in my mind Kara was well-qualifie

Another of the first American woman to fly in combat in the '90s was Lt Col.Martha McSally, ranked as the top female Air Force pilot. Lt Col McSally was among the first women trained by the Air Force as a fighter pilot. During a 1995-96 tour of duty in Kuwait, she became the first woman in military history to fly a combat sortie in a fighter aircraft. She also flew more than 100 combat hours on an A-10 Warthog attack plane over Iraq in the mid-1990s, and served as a flight commander and trainer of combat pilots.

There have to be others like her out there, Gator..many women who can serve and fight.